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Hanna

Hanna (Ronan) is a teenage girl. Uniquely, she has the strength, the stamina, and the smarts of a soldier; these come from being raised by her father (Bana), an ex-CIA man, in the wilds of Finland. Living a life unlike any other teenager, her upbringing and training have been one and the same, all geared to making her the perfect assassin. The turning point in her adolescence is a sharp one; sent into the world by her father on a mission, Hanna journeys stealthily across Europe while eluding agents dispatched after her by a ruthless intelligence operative with secrets of her own (Ms. Blanchett). As she nears her ultimate target, Hanna faces startling revelations about her existence and unexpected questions about her humanity.3.2 out of 5 based on 20 reviews

Hanna (Ronan) is a teenage girl. Uniquely, she has the strength, the stamina, and the smarts of a soldier; these come from being raised by her father (Bana), an ex-CIA man, in the wilds of Finland. Living a life unlike any other teenager, her upbringing and training have been one and the same, all geared to making her the perfect assassin. The turning point in her adolescence is a sharp one; sent into the world by her father on a mission, Hanna journeys stealthily across Europe while eluding agents dispatched after her by a ruthless intelligence operative with secrets of her own (Ms. Blanchett). As she nears her ultimate target, Hanna faces startling revelations about her existence and unexpected questions about her humanity.

The Times

The Sunday Times

Cosmo Ladesman

“Fairy tales are allegories that teach children about the big bad world beyond their front door. The one weakness of the film is that it doesn’t have anything to say to its adult audience about childhood or being a parent. Instead, it cruises along, content with being observational.”

The Scotsman

Alistair Harkness

“With Hanna, Wright's found a perfect outlet for the weird, wired, off-kilter energy that he frequently injects into his films, and he gives full expression to those impulses in order to make this seen-it-all-before tale of a government-programmed killing machine on a mission to take down her creator seem fresh and pleasingly strange”

The Daily Telegraph

Sukhdev Sandhu

“Can this really be a Joe Wright film? Where are the corsets and crinoline? What happened to the stately grammar he employed in costume dramas such as Pride and Prejudice and Atonement? Hanna sees him changing his game, embracing the potential of low-brow genres, reaching for some of the same craziness as Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan. ”

Time Magazine

Mary Pols

“The movie you'd most want to see projected on monitors the next time you're 23 and getting drunk at a nightclub ... Over-eager in almost every way, the movie keeps pressing scenes of deliberate weirdness on us.”

The Observer

The Evening Standard

Derek Malcolm

“What with Donkey Punch, Kick-Ass and True Grit, it seems that young girls, even pre-adolescent, are the new film heroines. Saoirse Ronan's teenage Hanna, however, beats the lot of them for combat skills. ”

The Independent

The Los Angeles Times

Kenneth Turan

“Blessed with considerable virtues, including a clever concept, crackling filmmaking and a charismatic star, it ultimately squanders all of them, undone by an unfortunate lack of subtlety and restraint.”